Job openings/Operations Engineer

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YOU ARE ...

.. a skilled Infrastructure and Operations Engineer that would love to keep a global top 5 web site fast and highly available.

You're excited about joining a small and enthusiastic operations team in a non-profit organization with a huge global impact. You enjoy working with open source solutions, solving complex problems autonomously, while flexibly working with your colleagues (including volunteers) who may be at the opposite site of the globe. You highly value job satisfaction and "doing the right thing", more than stock options (of which we only have the imaginary kind).

JOB TITLE

Operations Engineer [CLOSED]

REPORTS TO

Director of Operations

JOB PURPOSE

As Operations Engineer, your job involves designing, developing and optimizing the technical infrastructure and operations of the Wikimedia Foundation projects and maintaining the security, scalability and availability of the web properties.

JOB SUMMARY

You are responsible for designing, implementing and improving
the Wikimedia technical infrastructure that is supporting the
needs of the Wikimedia projects (including Wikipedia) and the
organization. You will work in tight collaboration with the
rest of the operations team, as well as development
engineering, other departments and the volunteer community.

Your duties include, but are not limited to the following:

Large infrastructure projects, from research and design to implementation and maintenance

Server and service deployments, server and database installations and configuration management

Day to day optimizing, monitoring and maintenance of systems, including security response and database administration

Emergency response to system outages

Writing and updating internal documentation of systems and processes

Assisting in data center operations

Your working language will be English. You must be willing to travel, including a twice yearly trip to San Francisco for all-hands meetings.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

You have advanced knowledge of LAMP stack technologies and 5+ years of relevant work experience

You are able to work independently where needed, and can work remotely as part of a globally distributed team

You are able to learn quickly. Relevant hands-on experience and eagerness to learn and try new concepts is more important than having certificates

Experience with data center management (including power, space and cooling) is a plus

Experience with systems and network security is a plus

Understanding of the free culture movement is a plus

Experience working with online volunteers is a major plus.

You are a proficient English speaker

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation got its start in 2003 and is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia. Based in San Francisco, California, we currently employ over 150 staff and contractors globally. The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to creating a world in which every single human being can freely and easily share in the sum of all knowledge. Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive nearly 500 million unique visitors per month, making them the 5th most popular web property worldwide. Wikipedia is available in more than 280 languages, containing more than 47 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of over 100,000 people. In an effort to continue our mission, we are hiring talented and creative individuals to join the team.